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DiceCloud Version 2 is out!

https://dicecloud.com is now the home of version 2!

If you are a version 1 user, your characters are safe, you can find them here: https://v1.dicecloud.com

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Version 2 Release Date - 2022-12-02

After 4 years of development, DiceCloud Version 2 is leaving beta this Friday!

This is a major milestone for version 2, and it will become the official version of DiceCloud going forward.

What will happen to version 1?

You will still be able to access the curr...

Version 2 Open Beta is Now Live!

Head over to beta.dicecloud.com to check it out.

For details of what's changed, you can check out this post 

Version 2 Open Beta: 17th July 2021

Version 2 is finally going into open beta in just over a week's time!

This update will make version 2 (beta.dicecloud.com) accessible to everyone, for free, with some limitations. This update will also remove all restriction...

Version 2 Open Beta and Developer livestream Q&A

Open Beta

Version 2 (beta.dicecloud.com) is getting to the point where I'd like to move from a closed beta to an open one. The plan is to give all users access, but hav...

Annual Membership

Hi everyone,

You can now choose to pay for Patreon on an annual basis. It’s a great way to show your support to me, and in return you’ll get a discount of 16% when you do.

For existing patrons the following steps will help you switch over your pledge to annual.

1. Log in,...
   2021-01-20 08:48:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Version 2 - It's all coming together

Just a quick look at how slots make building characters in DiceCloud version 2 amazingly fast. Building out your character is now just choosing to fill slots from libraries. Either from libraries that you have built, or ones you are subscribed to from the community.

Version 2 - The Log

When a creature performs an action, or makes a saving throw, DiceCloud v1 assumes you are playing at a table, and will be rolling those dice yourself, but as social distancing and online games become the new norm, the need for online dice rolls grows ever greater. The log is where those rolls wil...

Version 2 - New Parser

Some time ago there was a small bug report on version 2's handling of dice rolls: '2d8 + 2' was being factorised as '2(1d8+2)' which might make some kind of sense from an algebra point of view, when it comes to dice rolling, it's not the same thing at all.

Both version 1 and 2 of DiceCloud ...

Version 2 - Beta updates

Work steams ahead on the version 2 beta. Here is a list of all the updates that have been made over the last 12 days.

• functions now work in calculations
• removed starter set character links from home page
• Properties in library that don't have a specific field no longe...
  2020-05-18 23:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post

DiceCloud Version 2 Beta Launch!

Today is the day, DiceCloud version 2 is going into beta.

beta.dicecloud.com 

Available for all Patrons pledging $5 or more, version 2 beta is launching with most of the functionality promised for v2, and will be ...

Version 2 - Progress Update and Pre-Alpha

It's been a while since the last v2 update post here, but that doesn't mean things have slowed down on development.

Focus over the last few months has been on getting the new libraries built and making them a pleasure to use.

Libraries will form the backbone of interacting with DiceCl...

Version 2 - Forms

DiceCloud, is three things. It's a data structure for storing D&D characters, it's a character sheet that displays that data nicely, and it's a bunch of forms for editing that data.

In version 2, all three of those things are changing, some of them a little, some of them a lot, but all...

DiceCloud 1.11.0

DiceCloud 1.11 is out today with an overhaul of the Patreon Insiders exclusive feature: Item Libraries.

Item libraries allow you to create, and share libraries of items that are available across all your characters. You can easily add library items to your characters from their inventory ta...

Version 2 - Libraries and the Character Tree

Version 1 of DiceCloud has some limited support for storing libraries of items and spells. This is how the current SRD library works behind the scenes: it's just a special case of custom libraries that everyone has access to.

If you support DiceCloud at an Insider level, you will also have ...

Version 2 - Dark Mode

Work on version 2 continues at a steady pace, and while a lot of back-end changes are happening that aren't easy to show off, one thing that I can show on the front-end is dark mode.

Dark mode has been a long requested feature in DiceCloud, with players often resorting to third party script...

Version 2 - Custom Attributes

One of the most requested features in DiceCloud is the ability to add your own stats to your character. The stats that DiceCloud currently supports are almost all of the stats that could be acquired by characters using the player's handbook only, but not all of those are accounted for.

Wha...

Version 2 - Health Bars

In the last post I looked at the current state of health bars in DiceCloud, now I'd like to show their current state in version 2.

Health bars in version 1 relied on dragging to increment their val...

Health Bars - Retrospective

As you may or may not know, DiceCloud is getting a version 2. It's an almost complete rewrite of the app, and once it's done and tested, all existing DiceCloud characters will be migrated to the new version. Development is still very much underway, and a beta only going to be likely near the end ...

Patreon Tiers

I'm in the process of adding tiers to DiceCloud's Patreon, to help give back and reward the Patrons who make running the site possible.

If you are currently a Patron, you'll need to opt-in to tiers you already qualify for. If you have ideas for different rewards you'd like, or new tiers, let ...

More Memory thanks to Patrons

Up until this point, DiceCloud's server has been scaled up and down to meet demand, because running at full capacity all the time has been too expensive to maintain. An unfortunate side effect of this is that every time the demand spikes unexpectedly, the server would run out of memory.

2018-03-27 07:57:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Goal reached: database upgrade!

DiceCloud's database has been upgraded. This comes with more RAM for the database, which should prevent any slowdowns during busy times, as well as daily automated backups.

Thanks to all the Patrons who keep DiceCloud ticking over every month.

New server, better hosting

Thanks to DiceCloud's patrons, DiceCloud is now live at a new host. Which should give us the following:

• Better stability, DiceCloud shouldn't slow down nearly as much, or as often
• SSL, all communication with the DiceCloud server is now encrypted
• Oplog tailing, which shoul...
  2016-10-05 05:51:04 +0000 UTC View Post

DiceCloud is moving (soon)

Thanks to Patron support, DiceCloud is going to be moving to a new hosting provider (Scalingo) in the next few weeks. You can try it out here: https://dicecloud.scalingo.io, the site has a copy of the DiceCloud database, so y...

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